Even if we are right and non-bank financial institutions, e.g. insurance companies and pension funds, start to lend more meaningfully to commercial property this can only ever be a partial and/or temporary fix. For example, non-bank lenders may just cherry-pick the best borrowers with debt secured against prime property, which will leave banks very exposed to low quality assets and do nothing to ease refinancing problems for investors in this secondary stock.
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